Picture: Keith Wiseman
CAN the deluge of competition entries to Irish Chamber Orchestra’s two nights of Viennese Waltzes in the open air Milk Market please trickle to nil?
Michelle Surdival from Dooradoyle was the name pulled out of a top hat for dinner for two at Absolut Hotel and tickets to ICO’s Viennese evening with Ballet Ireland. This will place on Thursday May 28 and Friday 29 in the Big Top at 8pm.
There are seats left for this visual as well as musical spectacular that mixes ballet, soaring orchestrals and a soprano supreme; www.uch.ie and 061-331549.
This Strauss special is to be conducted by Jochen Rieder, leading a 35 piece ICO.
He has collaborated with the Opernhaus Zurich, the Opera National, Paris, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, and more.
Photo: Matthias Baus
Fittingly, one of Germany’s finest young coloratura sopranos, Gloria Rehm, will delight audiences with Strauss arias while waltzes will feature dancers from Ballet Ireland in costumes of the period. Hostess for this evening is RTE Lyric fm’s Drivetime presenter, Liz Nolan.
Hark back to ‘Carmen after Bizet’, last year’s collaboration with Ballet Ireland that was funded by City of Culture to appreciate what a very fine evening this will be.
